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The Criminal Behaviour of Young Fathers

CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and Rasmus Landersø, finds that very young fathers who have their first child while they are still teenagers subsequently commit less crime if the child is a boy than if it is a girl. This then has a spill over effect on other young men of a similar age living in the same neighbourhoods as the young father. The research was covered on the British press.

Professor Dustmann and Dr Otten are coauthors in the first report in CEPR's Monitoring International Integration series, Europe's Trust Deficit: Causes and Remedies. They analyse the roots of the decline in trust in both national and European political institutions, as reflected in the rise of populist politics.

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Nikos Theodoropoulos is an Assistant Professor at the University of Cyprus. He holds degrees in Economics (B.Sc. University of York, M.Sc., PhD University of Leicester). His main research interests are in the economics of migration, labour market discrimination, human capital, and in the econometric analysis of matched employer-employee data.